Michael Akin

Category: Programming

  • C# Parallel Tasks gives MAJOR Speed Increase

    I just used parallel tasks to decrease the time a process took from over an hour to about 2 minutes.  I was wary of creating so many database contexts, but it paid off in a major way! See the snippet of code below to see how I used the Parallel.ForEach.  .Net created almost 100 threads during…

  • Added HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery to my resume

    Here is a link to my resume that adds my recent experience with HTML5, CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery and more.  Also, check out my About page to find out more about me.

  • Learning about SOLID programming principles

    I have been learning about SOLID programming principles and I wanted to share the resources that I have found. First, I listed to the father of these principles describe them on the Hansleman show.  This post obviously caused a few ruffled feathers and for fun, you must listen to show #150 to hear some of…

  • ToQuarter C# DateTime Extension

    I searched on the internet for a quick way to get the Quarter from a DateTime, but I didn’t really find anything useful, so I created this quick extension that seems to work great!  I just wanted to share this to save someone time so they don’t waste the same amount of time that I…

  • Converting Oracle Comments to SQL Server.

    I downloaded some code a recently that creates an Oracle Database, but I don’t have Oracle, so I converted most of the code to SQL Server.  One of the harder things to convert was the column and table comments.  One of the features of Oracle that Microsoft SQL Server does not have directly is commenting.…